The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-24
LADY IUCY'S PETITION.
Chambers Journal.

this dismal place to which you are
taking me, nurse?" as, d the Lady
Lucy Preston, raising her eyes fearful
~ to the Tower OF London, as the
coach in which she was seated with
Amy Gradwell, her nurse, drove un.
der the gateway. She trembled and
hid har face in Amy's cloak, when
bhey alighted, and she saw the sold
iers on guard, and the sentinels with
their crossed part,sans before the
portals of that part of the fortress
where the prisoners of state were con-
fined, and where her own father, Lord
Preston, of whom she was come to
take her last farewell, was then con-
&ned under sentence Of death.
ayes, my dear child" returned Amy
sorrowfuIly, my lord your father is
indeed within these sad walls. You
are now going to visit him; shall you
be afraid of entering this place, my
dear?"
"No," replied Lady Lucy resolutely;
81 am not afraid OF going to any place
where my dear papa is"
Yet she clung closer to the arms OF
her attendent as they were admitted
into the gloomy precincts OF the
buildings, and her little heart futter
ed fearfully as she glanced around
her, and she whispered to the nurse,
"Was it not here that the two young
princes, Edward V. and his brother
Richard, Duke of York, were murder
ed by their cruel uncle, Richard Duke
of Gloucester?'
eyes, my love, 1t was; but do not
be alarmed on that account, for no
one will harm you" said old Amy in
an encouraging tone.
And was not good King Henry VI.
murdered here also by that same
wicked Richard?" continued the little
girl, whose imagination was full OF the
records of the deeds OF blood that had
been perpetrated in this fatally cele-
brated place, many Of which had been
related to her by Bridget Holdworth,
the housekeeper, since her father had
been imprisoned in the Tower on a
charge of high treason.
"But do you think they will murder
papa, nurse?" pursued the child, as
they began to ascend the sSairs lead
ing to the apartment in which the un-
fortunate nohleman was confined.
"Hush-hush! dear child, you must
not talk OF these things here" said
Amy, cor they viii shut us both up
in a room with bolts and bars, instead
Of admitting us TO see my lord, your
father"
Lady Lucy pressed close to her
nurse's side and was silent till they
were ushered into the room where the
father was confined, when, forgetting
everything else in her Joy at seeing
MIN again, she sprang into his arms.
and almost stifed him with her kisses.
Lord Preston was greatly affected
at the sight of his little daughter, and
overcome by her passionate demons
trations offondness, his own anguish at
the thought of his approaching separa-
tion from her and the idea ofleaving her
an orphan at her tender age, for she
had only Just completed her 9th year,
and had lost her mother, he clasped
her to his bosom and bedeWed her in.
nocent face with his tears.
why do you cry, dear papa2"
asked the innocent child, who was her
self weeping at the sight OF his distress.
"And why will you not leave this
gloomy place, and come home to your
own hall again?p
ATTEND to me, Lucy, and will tell
you the cause of my grief" said her
father, seating the little girl on his
knee. 81 shall never come home
aRain, for / have been condemned TO
die for high treason, which means an
Offense against the king. and shall
not leave this place till they bring me
forth on Tower hill, where they will
cut of my head with sharp axe
and set it up afterwards over Temple
Bar or London Bridge"
At this terrible intelligence Lady
Lucy screamed aloud, and hid her
lace in her fathers bosom, wetting it
with tears.
"Be composed, my dear child, " said
Lord Preston, 'for / have much to
say to you and we may never meet
again on this side of the grave
'sNo, no, dear papa" cried she;
s.they shall not kill you, for Iwill cling
30 last about your neck, that they
shalInot be able to cut your head off;
and will tell them all how good and
kind you are, and then they will not
want to kill you.H
ssMy dearest love, this is all simple
talking, said Lord Preston. "Ihave
offended against the law as it is at
present established, by trying to have
my old master, King James, restored
To fha thrnnn. and therefore / most